On Saturday, Nov. 16, the
United States marks a milestone: the 80th anniversary of when President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union and “normalized”
U.S.-USSR relations. It is a day that should live in infamy.
But it’s a day hardly anyone
has ever heard of. I certainly hadn’t before researching my book, American Betrayal. As I studied the event, however, it
became clear that it was on this day 80 years ago that what I call “American
betrayal” began. It is the date on which the U.S. government institutionally
learned to lie.
After the Bolsheviks seized
dictatorial powers in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917, four
U.S. presidents (starting with Woodrow Wilson) and six secretaries of state
(starting with Bainbridge Colby) refused to normalize relations with the new
and bloody regime of Lenin and then Stalin…..To Read More….
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